10 Wrestlers Who Completely No Sold Finishers
6. Austin Aries
Austin Aries leaving the ring following his Bound For Glory 2018 Impact World Championship loss to Johnny Impact was the sort of thing that only stood to draw real and tangible attention if the world had been engaged in the pair's feud. Instead - like their odd Twitter beef before the match - it played out as an in-the-bubble squabble failing to pierce the film.
A worked shoot rivalry between the pair later turned out to be something almost entirely unsanctioned by TNA management and part of the reason that Aries' loss here turned out to be his last for the company despite a couple of critically acclaimed stints with the organisation. The future John Morrison wasn't particularly long for the company either - he lost the title a few months later and wrapped up with the company ahead of a surprising return to WWE in a late-2019.
For all this sort of thing might have once courted bona fide shock and awe around the industry, decades of exhaustion with this trope-y nonsense had stripped it of power and conversational pride of place.